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22 22 WORDS Writers’ Theater: 7pm, Firehouse Café ART ART COMMUNITY 19 Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village Green
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6 34: Advice Goddess ` E360-647-8200 x 252 erating at Western Washington University under calling knows this. I fear Mills may be, if his habit 35: Crossword ô marisa@ cascadiaweekly.com a license from the state, ambushing unknowing is truly to laugh at students whom his approach VIEWS VIEWS 36: This Modern World, Tom the Dancing Frank Tabbita students with “challenges” they may or may not offends, unable to manage the power of the posi-
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THE TYRANNY OF DEAD IDEAS: We observed recent- 38 38 ly that leadership without opposition is tyranny,
FOOD and that peculiar strangulation is evident in Elec- tion ‘09, where most city and county races drew no credible opposition. Instead, our local elec- views 32 32 tions are mostly an exercise of position jockeying OPINIONS THE GRISTLE and entrenchment by veteran career politicians. In City of Bellingham races, Stan Snapp and
CLASSIFIEDS Gene Knutson walk back to office without oppo- sition. Louise Bjornson received the 3am phone
28 28 call from Democratic Labor forces that they would not support her reelection habit for a second de- BY CARL WEIMER FILM FILM cade and would throw their weight instead to Seth Fleetwood, who was retrenching from the At-Large
24 position on Whatcom County Council to one more suited to him on Bellingham City Council. Real Change MUSIC The situation is equally bleak in county races, with Laurie Caskey-Schreiber—unloved in her PIPELINES HAVE BECOME SAFER SINCE WHATCOM CREEK DISASTER 22 22 own district—moving into Seth’s seat, where her
ART ART chances of protracted survival are improved. In TEN YEARS ago, the Olympic part of their initial training watch a perhaps the ultimate retrenchment, Dan McShane, pipeline blew up here in Bellingham movie about the Bellingham pipeline
19 who two years ago retired from District 1, seeks to and caused this community to learn tragedy. I have been known to drink return to that district in a different position, one about pipeline safety the hard way. beer with this man. STAGE STAGE vacated by his erstwhile colleague, Ward Nelson. The question I get asked most fre- Example of change within the In his May announcement for office, McShane quently here these days is, “Has pipe- regulators: In 2000 when SAFE Bell-
18 accurately scoped the problem: “The number of line safety really gotten any better?” ingham held the first-ever citizen- people [seeking office] that are informed and en- Thankfully, the answer to that inspected, the companies are going organized national pipeline safety gaged seems to be declining. This trend opens the question is yes. far beyond the regulations for a va- conference in Washington, DC, the GET OUT community to elect ill informed candidates that In this short space I can’t explain riety of reasons. Because of this new head of the federal Office of Pipeline show up at the last minute as single-issue candi- all the changes that have occurred, regulation by the end of 2007 the Safety refused to attend or have any
16 dates who cry it’s time for new blood. They may be but here are three examples to help liquid pipeline operators had found of his employees attend. Instead he really great people, but when they arrive to city back up my belief. and repaired about 85,000 problems had a pipeline industry representa-
WORDS or county government without any understanding Changes in regulations: Congress on their pipelines, and the natural tive take notes for him. of the issues they either take three years to begin has passed two major pipeline safety gas pipeline operators had repaired In 2008, when the Pipeline Safety figuring out how to get anything done or simply bills since 1999 that put into place more than 2,500. Trust held their conference in New 8 become yes men (we could use some more women a whole range of new regulations. In 1999 there were no such re- Orleans, the new head of the Office around here) to either staff or political handlers.” The most important one of these quirements for inspections and re- of Pipeline Safety was there, and he McShane’s concerns were borne out, presciently, is a requirement referred to as “in- pairs. These new regulations came as brought 12 staff people from around CURRENTS CURRENTS in the final hours of Filing Week, when a coordi- tegrity management,” which basi- a direct result of the push for greater the country with him to participate. nated cluster of weak sisters (one of them a broth- cally requires the large transmission pipeline safety after the Bellingham He also came to Bellingham in Sep- 6 6 er) announced their run for County Council. pipeline companies to spend tens of tragedy, and as the above numbers tember to participate in the Pipeline As we noted at the height of the local election millions of dollars to inspect their indicate, tens of thousands of prob- Safety Trust’s strategic planning re- VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS cycle in 2007, there is a tested avenue to seek pipelines that fall within “high con- lems that could have potentially be- treat. He is here in Bellingham this
4 public office: “You serve on various boards, com- sequence areas” (populated and en- come Bellingham-like tragedies have week to talk about how his agency mittees and neighborhood associations. You work vironmentally sensitive areas). been avoided. has changed because of Bellingham. MAIL MAIL on candidates’ campaigns, knocking on doors and Liquid pipelines, such as Olympic, Example of change within the in- I have been known to drink beer
talking to citizens. You become familiar with the are now required to be inspected ev- dustry: In 2001 the Association of with this man. 2 issues, the challenges; you meet government staff ery five years. Natural gas pipelines, Oil Pipe Lines and the American Pe- Hopefully these three examples DO IT IT DO and begin to associate faces with projects. You such as the Northwest Pipeline that troleum Institute started a new effort will give you a sense of the change volunteer for a community project or serve pan- blew up in 1997 east of Everson, are called the Performance Excellence that has occurred in the regulations
09 09 cakes at a hospice center. In this way, you learn now required to be inspected every Team with the goal of “zero injuries, and the cultures of the industry and
.10. public service. seven years. For liquid pipelines, zero spills.” This effort has been un- regulators. Certainly there is still a 06 “You also build a public record that confirms this high-consequence-area require- derway for nearly ten years now and good deal more that needs to be ac- professed values. You get your hide toughened ment captures a little more than 40 has developed a data collection and complished, like expanding those high .04
23 and your spine nailed straight.” percent of all the liquid pipelines in reporting system that helps the en- consequence areas. But the amount of # Now ask yourself, what are the odds that four the country, or about 73,000 miles tire industry put their efforts where change that has happened in the last people, each relatively inactive politically, would worth. For natural gas pipelines the they can gain the biggest safety bang 10 years, based to a large degree on file independently for four different but coordi- definition of high consequence area for the buck. It also gives a company- the efforts started here in Belling- nated offices and who would, without communi- is different (since natural gas doesn’t by-company comparison that tells ham, is quite impressive considering cation or coordination, choose the same Internet pollute water in the same way as executives how well they are doing that when this all began on a beautiful service provider to host their campaign websites? liquids) so the regulation only cap- compared to their competition. The afternoon on June 10, 1999 it was just
CASCADIA WEEKLY Mary Beth Teigrob, Kathy Kershner, Michelle tures about 7 percent of all the nat- current leader of the Performance Ex- the small town of Bellingham against Luke, and Bill Knutzen each filed for a different ural gas pipelines, or about 19,000 cellence Team is a Vice President from the entire oil and gas industry. 6 County Council seat (KGMI host Teigrob earns miles worth. While the regulations Marathon Pipe Lines, who in 2006, Carl Weimer is executive director of chutzpah points for filing against KGMI host Ken only require this many miles to be mandated that all new employees as the Pipeline Safety Trust. Mann). They also, within hours of one another, se- lected Dotster as the ISP for their websites. Or VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE
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rather somebody did, as Dotster makes 38 it easy to register websites through un- disclosed third parties. (the Vancouver, FOOD Wash., webhoster came under scrutiny
Menotti’s 32 in 2008 for hosting a web site linked to the UNICORN known radical Jihadists, the Somali Al the GORGON Shabaab terrorist group, a story picked MANTICORE& up by the conservative blog “Right in a the with Barber’s Hermit Songs CLASSIFIEDS Left World” [not to be confused (per- IL CAFFE RIFUGIO tim Fitzpatrick, director haps) with the blog of the Whatcom GOP “A neighborhood Caffe Near & Far”
Bellingham Repertory Dance 28 chair, Luanne Van Werven’s “Right on Father’s Day Brunch NW Ballet choreographer John Bishop WWU Faculty & students the Left Coast”]). Sunday 11:00AM - 2:00PM FILM Adding to the amusement, Dotster Make your reservation now Saturday June 13 2009 was originally managed by Doug Palin, before all seats are taken. 8:00pm wwu Concert Hall Show your appreciation for your 24 Jr., cousin-in-law of Alaska Gov. Sarah $15 adults, $12 students/seniors, under 18 free TICKETS: Father by calling or e-mailing at WWU Box Office (360) 650-6146 www.tickets.wwu.edu
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ordinated in other ways as well. STAGE At April’s TEA Party organizing event for Whatcom conservatives, Kershner (running against McShane) exhorted GIFT CARDS 18 protest from “Americans who are fed up for... with higher taxes, increased spending Graduates, Fathers, GET OUT and wasteful, fraudulent government Grandfathers, action…. We are fed up with paying for
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20% 09 and organized through viral emails and .10. TEA parties and lapel pins really bring OFF 06 the rigor and breadth needed to vitalize
Whatcom’s democracy? .04 23 In his new book, The Tyranny of Dead AUDIO # Ideas, author Matt Miller examines in- grained identity politics so decrepit BOOKS they “prevent us from responding force- ALL JUNE fully… to improve people’s lives.” No- where is this more true than in What- at com County, where the entrenchment of CASCADIA WEEKLY polar political views have fossilized for 25 years. VILLAGE BOOKS 7 Veteran officials, comfortably en- trenched in office, are certainly in need 1200 11th St., Bellingham of challenge. But the challenge did not 360.671.2626 arrive in this election. VILLAGEBOOKS.com
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billows from Whatcom Creek after a gasoline pipeline leaked more than 200,000 gallons of fuel into 09 09 the creek and became ignited, .10. as seen in this June 10, 1999, 06 file photo in Bellingham, Wash. The five-year anniversary of the .04 explosion, which killed two boys 23 # and a young man, was Thursday, June 10, 2004, and $4 million in criminal fines against the Olympic Pipeline company helped set up the Pipeline Safety Trust, but families of the victims are still working to improve pipeline AP PHOTO AP safety laws nationwide. CASCADIA WEEKLY
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Explosions broke windows in homes and businesses and FOOD JUNE 10 marks the 10th anniversary of a huge blast created when gas leaked from a pipe- leveled a house on Valencia Street near the creek. The line in Bellingham and was ignited into a fireball along Whatcom Creek. Two 10-year-old creek bed and surrounding greenbelt were charred and
boys playing in the creek were severely burned and died in a Seattle hospital. A teenage blackened. 32 fly-fishing enthusiast was pursuing his quarry in the creek’s shady pools and eddies when Crews aextinguished remaining fires in Whatcom Falls he was overcome by gasoline vapors and drowned before the explosion. Park and triaged immediate hazards. On Thursday afternoon, June 10, 1999, a 16-inch fuel line owned by the Olympic Pipe The water treatment plant and pump station at What-
Line Company ruptured in Bellingham, spilling 277,200 gallons of gasoline into Hanna and com Falls sustained extensive damage. The fuel spill CLASSIFIEDS Whatcom creeks. The volatile fuel exploded, killing three youths: Liam Wood, 18, and Wade occurred about 150 feet in front of the facility, and King and Stephen Tsiorvas, both age 10. The massive fireball sent a plume of smoke 30,000 the subsequent explosion shattered all the windows feet into the air, visible from Anacortes to Vancouver, BC. and blew the doors off the building. For all practical 28 purposes, the pump station was destroyed, with equip- ment and control systems melted in the fire. Belling- FILM ham residents were advised to conserve water until all the water pumps were repaired and back on-line. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS 24 3:10PM An Olympic Pipe Line Co. control- 4:55PM Gasoline vapors explode, creating CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE ler notices an error in computer a river of fire from the rupture ON OCT. 8, 2002, The National Transportation Safety MUSIC logs monitoring valves and site near the Whatcom Falls Water Board, after a three-year investigation, ruled the Treatment Station, one and a half gasoline flow. After a check, the Olympic Pipeline explosion was caused by a cascad- 22 worker concludes everything is miles down the creek, to Inter- ing series of events rather than a single catastrophic fine and restarts the flow. state-5. The massive fireball sends failure of the fuel pipe. The NTSB cited damage caused ART 3:18PM As the flow is restarted, pres- a plume of smoke 30,000 feet into in 1994 by IMCO General Construction Company while
sure builds along the pipeline. the air, visible from Anacortes to conducting excavation work at nearby Whatcom Falls 19 Controllers start a back-up pump Vancouver, BC. Dense black smoke Water Treatment Plant, the failure of the Olympic
at Woodinville to relieve the cause the closure of Interstate-5 Pipe Line Company to identify or repair the damage, STAGE pressure, but the transfer fails, for more than an hour. a faulty computer system that failed to respond to sounding alarms and crashing Fearing the fire would con- repeated indications pressure was building up inside
computers. tinue flowing down the creek into the pipeline, a faulty pressure relief valve and failure 18 3:25PM A pressure relief valve fails. Pres- downtown Bellingham, police offi- to adequately train its employees. sure in the pipeline builds and a cers began evacuating businesses. A criminal investigation by the Environmental Protec- section weakened as a result of Gasoline migrated into the city’s tion Agency resulted in a seven-count indictment by a GET OUT recent excavations in the area of sewer system, and the vapors were federal grand jury in Seattle in September 2001. The Whatcom Falls Park begins to fail. at explosive levels for an hour. indictment charged Olympic Pipe Line, and Equilon
3:28PM The pressure surge leads to a The U.S. Coast Guard, concerned Pipeline, which had operated the pipeline in 1999, 16 catastrophic rupture in the line the fuel could ignite dock pilings with five felony violations of the Hazardous Liquid traversing Whatcom Falls Park, and vessels, closed Bellingham Pipeline Safety Act and two misdemeanor violations of WORDS and sends 277,200 gallons of Bay for a one-mile radius from the the Clean Water Act. Included in the indictment were highly volatile gasoline into mouth of Whatcom Creek. three Olympic employees, a vice-president/manager,
AP PHOTO AP Hanna Creek and Whatcom Creek, The first victim was Liam Gordon a supervisor, and the controller at the time of the 8 8 which flows through downtown Wood, age 18, who was fly fish- accident. Bellingham into Bellingham Bay. ing in Whatcom Creek when the ON JULY 28, 1999, the parents of Wade King and ABOVE: Checking for gas, Olympic Pipe 3:29PM The leak drops pressure in the rupture occurred. According to Stephen Tsiorvas filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in CURRENTS CURRENTS Line Co. workers cold tap a section of pipeline to normal levels, but Whatcom County Medical Examiner Whatcom County Superior Court naming the Olympic CURRENTS the petroleum pipeline near the City pipeline failsafes shut the system Dr. Gary Goldfogel, Wood was Pipe Line Company, the Equilon Pipeline Company of Bellingham water treatment plant down between Cherry Point and overcome by noxious fumes, and and three Olympic employees as defendants. On April 6 Wednesday, June 16, 1999, near the Renton. fell into the creek and drowned 10, 2002, in an out-of-court settlement, Olympic and point of a break in the pipe. Approximat- 4:16PM Heedless, Olympic Pipe Line Co. prior to the explosion. Equilon agreed to pay the families of King and Tsiorvas ley 100 gallons of gas will be pumped again restarts the flow of gasoline The other two victims, Wade King, $75 million. The Wood family reached a separate, VIEWS from the upper end of the pipeline that from Cherry Point. 10, and Stephen Tsiorvas, 10, undisclosed settlement with the companies. caused an explosion in Whatcom Falls 4:24PM Calls begin to arrive at emergency schoolmates at Roosevelt Elemen- ON DEC. 11, 2002, Olympic Pipe Line pleaded guilty 4 Park June 10, 1999. services from residents reporting tary School, were playing north in U. S. District Court, Seattle, to one felony count MAIL MAIL the strong odor of gasoline in the of the Hanna and Whatcom creek under the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act and confluence when the explosion vicinity of Whatcom Creek. two Clean Water Act misdemeanors. Equilon Pipeline 2 4:35PM An Olympic Pipeline field worker occurred. The boys survived the entered no-contest pleas to the same violations. Under ATTEND who happened to be in the area blast but suffered terrible burns. the plea agreement, the companies agreed to pay a DO IT IT DO WHAT: “Whatcom Creek Pipeline calls the company’s command cen- The boys died the following day, record $112 million to settle all federal criminal fines Explosion: A Decade of Healing” ter in Renton, reporting a strong June 11, 1999. and most civil claims against them. According to U. S.
WHEN: Wed., June 10 odor of gasoline. 6:30PM firefighters manage to get the Attorney John McKay, the pleas marked the first time a 09 WHERE: A guided, interpretive tour 4:45PM Bellingham Fire Department Haz- major blazes under control pipeline company had been convicted under the 1979 .10. starts at 3:30pm at the stone bridge in ardous Materials Teams, sent to 7:00PM the black smoke had largely dis- Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act. 06 Whatcom Falls Park. At 6pm at Maritime investigate, find copious amounts sipated. The inferno, estimated Rep. Kelli Linville (D-Bellingham) sponsored a bill Heritage Park, a community gathering to have reached 2,000 degrees of gasoline flowing down the that would give the state responsibility for regulating .04 will feature local, state and national creek toward Bellingham Bay. The Fahrenheit, caused a high-voltage 23
intrastate pipelines and improve pipeline safety. # speakers, live music and prayers for the water is pink and the fumes over- power line and two substations ON MARCH 28, 2000, during a ceremony at Bell- future. whelming. Hazard officials begin to be shut down, disrupting ingham City Hall, Gov. Gary Locke signed into law the INFO: Pipelinesafetytrust.org evacuating the area and setting electrical service to about 58,000 Washington Pipeline Safety Act (House Bill 2420), up barricades. Gasoline floods Bellingham customers for several WHAT: Community Displays which allows the Washington State Utilities and down Whatcom Creek toward hours. WHEN: June 10-12 Transportation Commission to inspect 2,500 miles of downtown. WHERE: Bellingham City Hall intrastate pipelines and oversee the state’s pipeline- INFO: Pipelinesafetytrust.org safety program. Gov. Locke told reporters the law “sets us on a clear CASCADIA WEEKLY path toward stronger and more effective regulations of pipelines and better prevention of accidents.” Annual 9 fees levied against the pipeline operators pay for the program, which costs about $1 million a year. —Various sources CURRENTS THE WEEK IN REVIEW
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32 32 business leaders at a Spokane luncheon. ! * Port commission seats draw primary challenges, along with the Police called to an Everett county’s At-Large position and COB’s Ward 6.
CLASSIFIEDS In last minute filings, Bellingham resident Kathy Kershner says home because of a domestic dis- she’ll stop Dan McShane’s attempt to return to County Council. pute find the deadly toxin, ricin. Carl Weimer matches up against Michelle Luke, active in Lummi 28 28 Federal investigators believe the Island planning and shoreline issues. It’s KGMI vs. KGMI, as case is not believed to be con- Mary Beth Teigrob squares off against fellow radio host Ken FILM FILM nected to terrorism, and people Mann. Laurie Caskey-Schreiber, moving to the At-Large position, faces two challenges from Lynden’s Bill Knutzen and Dave Pros, in the neighborhood weren’t in active in county growth management. 24 danger as the search was con- Seth Fleetwood, moving into the vacant At-Large position on ee ducted. Bellingham City Council, faces activist Yoshe Revelle. South- MUSIC side’s Michael Lilliquist faces two opponents in the 6th Ward, 06.05.09 Democratic Party activist Catherine Chambers and glass artist 22 22 THE THAT WAS Christopher Morrison.
ART ART FRIDAY Rescuers suspend their search PORT OF BELLINGHAM 19 for two boaters missing after COMMISSION their a small sailboat overturns DISTRICT 1* STAGE STAGE in Chuckanut Bay, throwing John Blethen six people into the water. Four Ham Hayes
18 struggle to shore. Scott Walker DISTRICT 2* More than 100 people file Scott Walker Mike McAuley GET OUT for public office in Whatcom Doug Karlberg Doug Smith County, yet most Bellingham
16 positions remain without chal- WHATCOM COUNTY lengers. Both Port of Bellingham COUNCIL
WORDS races draw an August primary. DISTRICT 1, POSITION A Kathy Kershner Health officials say a second Dan McShane 8 8 person with a confirmed case of Doug Smith DISTRICT 2, POSITION A swine flu has died in Washington Mary Beth Teigrob state. A Pierce County woman in Ken Mann CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS her 20s dies after being hospital- DISTRICT 3, POSITION A ized since May 21. A Snohomish Michelle Luke 6 County man in his 30s died May 6. Carl Weimer AT-LARGE* VIEWS VIEWS 06.08.09 Bill Knutzen Dave Pros 4 MONDAY Laurie Caskey-Schreiber MAIL MAIL Bellingham City Council spon- BELLINGHAM CITY
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Aurora, a 21-year-old beluga whale, gave birth June 7 at her aquarium home in Vancouver, British whether local law enforcement WARD 2 DO IT IT DO Columbia.The calf is the second whale to be born at the aquarium during the past year. Last June, efforts should decline to detain Gene Knutson Aurora became a grandmother when her daughter Qila gave birth to a calf named Tiqa. or report AWOL military person- (no challenger) 09 09 nel. Despite impassioned (or be- Gene Knutson WARD 4 .10. cause of) testimony, City Council Stan Snapp 06 06.02.09 is unlikely to consider making (no challenger) Bellingham a ”sanctuary city.” WARD 6* .04 TUESDAY
23 Catherine Chambers # A three-alarm fire kills about 180,000 chickens at an egg farm near 06.10.09 Michael Lilliquist Stanwood. The Snohomish County fire marshal’s office says the exact Christopher Morrison cause of the fire remains under investigation, but is believed to be an WEDNESDAY AT-LARGE accident. Gov. Chris Gregoire proclaims Stan Snapp Seth Fleetwood Yoshe Revelle Pipeline Safety Day in memory 06.04.09 of the rupture and explosion BELLINGHAM CASCADIA WEEKLY of Olympic Pipeline that killed MUNICIPAL THURSDAY three in Bellingham on this day 10 State economic forecasters say the end of the recession is in sight, in 1999. Rep. Rick Larsen and COURT JUDGE despite a new report that shows the state’s economy doing worse than Sen. Patty Murray have intro- Debra Lev expected a few months ago. “The good news is things are still getting duced similar measures to their (no challenger) worse, but at a slower rate,” the state’s chief economic forecaster tells congressional committees. Debra Lev *August primary
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FUZZ BUZZ to Seattle to purchase healing crystals. 32 NOT ‘EVERY DAY,’ BLUE LIGHT SPECIALS BUT OFTEN ENOUGH On May 26, Bellingham Police were sum- On May 31, US Customs and Border Pro- moned to Best Buys on Meridian after a CLASSIFIEDS tection officers in Blaine used imaging man there caused a disturbance, annoying equipment to intercept a Mexican and customers in the store’s parking lot. The 28 a Guatemalan national who were riding suspect was caught after a brief struggle. aboard a railroad car after their illegal He did not have any identification on him FILM entry into the United States from Can- but he provided a name to the officers. ada. Service Port Director Gregg Alvarez Using that name, a warrant was located 24 said, “It isn’t everyday that we discover for his arrest. As the handcuffed suspect illegal aliens hiding on rail cars.” was being escorted to a patrol car, he MUSIC threatened to kill two of the officers. Fail- On March 28, USCBP officers used imag- ing that, he spat at them. His true identi- 22 ing equipment to intercept a Honduran ty was gleaned in jail. The 27-year-old was ART national attempting to illegally enter the booked on assault, felony harassment, ob- United States aboard a rail car. structing a police officer and making false 19 statement. In October 2008, USCBP of- STAGE ficers used imaging equip- On May 31, a teen with a ment to intercept a Mexican tire iron smashed a glass dis- 18 national attempting to ille- play case in the Bellingham gally enter the United States Wal-Mart. He allegedly took a GET OUT aboard a rail car. Play Station 3 and fled. A store employee located at the exit at- In April 2007, USCBP officers inter- tempted to block the suspect from 16 cepted a Honduran national attempt- leaving with the merchandise. The ~z APPROXIMATE LENGTH OF gas and oil pipelines in the United States in miles. ing to illegally enter the United States teen raised the tire iron in a threaten- WORDS aboard a rail car. ing manner, and the employee dodged aside. A shopper witnessed the incident 8 Also in April 2007, USCBP officers used and chased the suspect across the park- 8 imaging equipment to intercept a Hondu- ing lot to a nearby car wash. The suspect ran national attempting to illegally enter threw the tire iron at the man chasing CURRENTS CURRENTS y~~y CURRENTS the United States aboard a rail car. him, but missed. The citizen detained the suspect until Bellingham Police Officer GALLONS OF GASOLINE that spilled into Hanna and Whatcom creeks on June 10, 1999, in a catastrophic pipeline failure. 6 In March 2005, USCBP officers used imag- arrived. The 18-year-old was booked for ing equipment to intercept a Tacoma man first-degree robbery. VIEWS VIEWS attempting to illegally enter the United
States aboard a rail car. On May 27, Bellingham Police learned a 4 man living in a trailer had threatened the ¹~| ¹~} MAIL COOL BEANS MEETS MEAN life of the owner of the property where MILLION PAID TO the families of Stephen ESTIMATED AMOUNT, IN millions, paid
MACHINE the man’s trailer was parked. Police found 2 Tsiorvas and Wade King following the 1999 by Olympic Pipe Line Co. and Shell Oil for On June 2, the Cool Beans coffee drive- the man highly intoxicated and unwill- rupture of Olympic Pipeline in Bellingham. improved inspection and damage preven- DO IT IT DO thru on Lakeway Drive was robbed by a ing to come out of his trailer. From inside An undisclosed amount was paid to the tion measures following the disaster. man who walked up wearing a motorcycle the trailer, he continued to threaten to family of the third victim, Liam Wood. helmet and demanded money. He showed kill people, including the officers on the 09 no weapon, nor did he imply he had one. scene. After a two-and-a-half hour stand- .10. The barista gave him an undisclosed off, the 44-year-old was coaxed out of 06 amount of cash and he rode off in what his trailer. He was promptly arrested for ¹z} ¹x~ .04 Bellingham Police described as a “crotch felony harassment, assault and obstruct- 23 MILLIONS PAID BY Olympic Pipe Line Co. TOTAL AMOUNT, IN millions, paid in pri- # rocket” style motorcycle. ing law enforcement efforts. and Shell in additional criminal and civil vate property damage and personal injury settlements. following the 1999 pipeline rupture and ‘HEALING CRYSTALS’ CHIHUAHUA BROUHAHA explosion in Bellingham. On May 29, U.S. Customs and Border On May 31, Blaine Police were advised of Protection officers in Blaine arrested a dangerous animals at large on E Street. 69-year-old Surrey, British Columbia, man Police arrived to find two marauding chi- for allegedly attempting to smuggle into huahuas chasing around a park with chil- ~| ¹{|y CASCADIA WEEKLY the United States 48,244 tablets of ecsta- dren. “The diminutive doggy duo were de- NUMBER OF REPAIRS and problems BILLIONS IN PROFITS posted by Exxon 13 sy, worth more than $500,000. More than tained by their owners,” police reported. reported under new pipeline safety require- Mobil in 2008. 27 pounds of particolored MDMA tablets “They were chastized to not let their chi- ments imposed since June 10, 1999. were discovered hidden in vacuum-sealed huahuas charge about uncollared or risk a packages in the gas tank of his minivan. citation.” SOURCE: Associated Press; Pipeline Safety Trust CURRENTS NEWS
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LEFT: Photographic artist Gunther Frank CLASSIFIEDS BELOW: Snowboarder Sean “donnkie” Mansfield 28 28 FILM FILM 24 MUSIC 22 22 ART ART PHOTO BY MIKE YOSHIDA 19
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16 Frank and Sean Mansfield, missing since their boat capsized near Chuckanut
WORDS ! Bay early Friday morning. A rudder, a few seat cushions are all they’ve found since 8 8 Frank’s 18-foot sailing dory washed ashore south of Post Point. CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS The two friends, well known and loved in Bell- ingham’s night scene, were active and athletic. 6 Frank, 35, was a seasoned sailor. Mansfield, 29, was an avid snowboarder steeled to cold temperatures. VIEWS VIEWS Despite these advantages, the Whatcom County
4 Sheriff’s Office declared the men missing and pre- sumed drowned Friday, but volunteers continue MAIL MAIL their search undaunted. PHOTO BY GUNTHER FRANK AND CHRIS FULLER
2 Three people—a man and two women—made it to shore without assistance. A third woman DO IT IT DO knocked against steep cliffs along the southwest- BY TIM JOHNSON ern edge of Clark’s Point and held on for nearly four
09 09 hours until she was rescued. She was transported
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23 uneventful, in calm and pleasant weather. Evening # fell, bringing a strong weather system up from the south with heavier winds. The boat was report- '*./ / edly knocked down by strong winds, tossing all six people into the 48-degree waters of the bay. In an updated report, the Whatcom County Sher- iff’s Office said four of the boaters—Mansfield, CASCADIA WEEKLY Frank, and two of the women—eventually decided to swim for shore. The remaining two—a man and 14 woman—decided to stay with the boat and at- . tempt to free a dog trapped aboard. None of the boaters was wearing a life jacket or flotation de- vice at the time of the accident.
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The search was resumed Saturday 09 morning using a Coast Guard vessel and .10. a search craft belonging to the Whatcom 06 County Sheriff’s Office, but was called .04 off by mid-afternoon. 23 # The Coast Guard says it has no plans for further searches. The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office has also halted its search. Frank’s boat, Scumdinger, was cut up and hauled from the beach. Friends continue their search. Their loss is a wound through the downtown arts, CASCADIA WEEKLY music and nightlife communities that will 15 not heal until the friends are found.
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38 38 FOOD words 32 32 COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS CLASSIFIEDS 28 28 FILM FILM 24 City Council declined to consider such a pro- them to have a forum on their own dime?” she MUSIC posal, but agreed to at least foster debate on asked. “I’d be curious if they’d also consider the topic, a topic so likely to draw blood that the having an opportunity for a maybe more con- 22 22 city issued rules of conduct for the forum. The servative group to express their perspective
ART ART rules were ignored. Hours before the meeting, on a particular issue.” the mood had clouded to the point where police “What’s important right now is that we get this
19 presence seemed a reasonable precaution. critical discourse taking place,” Gene Marx of A sprinkling argued for amnesty that allows Veterans for Peace told conservative broadcast- STAGE STAGE AWOL soldiers to come in from the cold. Others, ers on Monday. Marx supports the resolution. more circumspect, thanked the City of Belling- “Right now we’ve got soldiers of conscience
18 ham for at least fostering a discussion of the that… are reevaluating their lives,” Marx concept, even if COB was unlikely to become a said. “They’re caught in a situation they sanctuary. didn’t think they’d ever be caught in.” GET OUT “I’m disappointed we can’t even talk about “The patriotic citizens of Bellingham are these issues without people flying into a rage,” making no such call for legal protection for 16 16 one speaker commented as he left. AWOL soldiers,” Van Werven argued to conser- BY TIM JOHNSON Supporters appeared outmatched. A hun- vative radio personality Dave Ross. “It’s just WORDS WORDS dred letters to City Hall had poured in, con- a small group of college students, and that is demning the event; none voiced favor for it. certainly not a gauge of citizen support.” Elected officials, sweating in the heat and Others were stronger in their condemnation. 8 No City Shall gloom, appeared subdued, even embarrassed. “Why in the name of heaven would you “It is insulting to those of us still alive and even consider inviting more lawbreakers doubly insulting to the memories of those into this community?” John Geier asked. CURRENTS CURRENTS Succor Them who served their nation with honor and have “They volunteered to serve in the military. since passed on,” former City Council member Just because they think they changed their 6 SANCTUARY CITY DEBATE DRAWS ANGRY Bob Hall observed. “It is particularly difficult mind, does not make it legal, nor does it to suppress my anger at those who would even make it right. All you will be doing is slap VIEWS VIEWS FIRE FROM CONSERVATIVES take such a proposal seriously.” the faces of every veteran who has and who
4 Crammed shoulder to shoulder in the pews of is serving and honoring their commitment.” But the people answered, “Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they Bellingham’s “temple of justice,” the munici- “It is absurd that an individual would join MAIL MAIL will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now pal courthouse, groups delivered hard words the military and then be surprised when
thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou suc- to one another. When a meeting moderator sent to a war zone,” Diane Ford observed. 2 cor us out of the city.” —2 Samuel 18:3 warned continued angry outbursts could shut “What did these people think was going to DO IT IT DO down the meeting, someone snarled, “Good!” happen? That they would be given monetary Conservatives—galvanized and mobilized benefits in return for nothing more than sit-
09 09 MARINE MANUEL Leonard Perry, 30, is in jail after he quietly by what is arguably the last expression of ting around and drinking with their buddies?
.10. turned himself in June 1 at the international border in Blaine. Perry, a patriotism in support of an unpopular and Our armed forces are not in the business of 06 Marine reservist, went AWOL in April 2003 after his unit received orders unwinding war—complained that City Council vacation getaways. to deploy to Iraq. He is one of many soldiers who, sensing a change in is having things both ways by saying it does “My understanding is that when one joins .04
23 America’s commitment to war, have begun to surrender to what they not support the resolution yet still provides up, a legally binding contract goes into ef- # hope are more sympathetic authorities for their dereliction of duty. a forum for the GI Sanctuary City movement fect,” Ford continued. “Apparently the de- Within days, he is moved out under a Marine guard. to present its views. Combat veterans formed serters who would be protected by the ri- Blocks away and days later, a mob gathers to debate whether deserters a similar wall. diculous resolution now before you have like Perry should receive mercy for their crimes. “I am just one person who represents hun- no sense of obligation to live up to a con- Conservatives turned out—angry and strong—against a public fo- dreds and hundreds and hundreds of people tract that they signed voluntarily. The idea rum approved by Bellingham City Council to discuss whether Bell- who are very upset with the whole idea of that one can get out of a contract simply
CASCADIA WEEKLY ingham should become the nation’s third “GI Sanctuary City,” where Bellingham being a sanctuary city for desert- by running away like a coward is offensive. police will be directed not to arrest or report AWOL soldiers like Perry ers,” Luanne Van Werven, chair of the What- Hundreds of thousands of brave and dutiful 16 who are refusing to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan. Supporters hope com County GOP, said in a nationally televised Americans have put their lives on the line Bellingham will be the third such city, following Ithaca, N.Y., and interview on FOX News. for us for over 200 years. Making our city a Berkeley, Calif., and—being a border community—an important ad- “If it’s just to allow them the opportunity haven for deserters would do our proud mili- dition to the roster. to express their view, why not encourage tary personnel a great disservice.” doit FEEL BETTER ~ SPEND LESS! Get Fast Relief with Spinal Decompression COMMUNITY Therapy and Chiropractic
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FERNDALE MARKET: The Ferndale Farmers Mar- FILM 1217 Harris Avenue (next to Trek Video) ket happens from 9am-3pm every Sat. through Oct. 17 at the Riverwalk on Main Street. The Passion
of the Crust 24 FERNDALEFARMERSMARKET.ORG It’ll be a log-rolling, hot saw-bucking, axe-throw- BELLINGHAM MARKET: The Bellingham Farm- ing good time June 13-14, when the 47th annual ers Market is open for business from 10am-3pm !” MUSIC Deming Logging Show comes to the eponymous t take en at the Depot Market Square, located at Railroad can’ the Whe r kitch show grounds you at, Come to ou Avenue and Chestnut Street. “If 22 BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG
Tuesday-Sunday 2-9pm • Open Friday & Saturday at 11:30am for Lunch ART METAPHYSICAL FAIR: The second annual Alternative Healing and Metaphysical Fair hap-
WORDS Eff!Xjmefsnvui!BSOQ!!XpnfoÖt!Ifbmui!Ovstf!Qsbdujujpofs!'!Dmbttjdbm!Ipnfpqbui 19 pens from 10am-6pm at the Center for Spiritual WED., JUNE 10 Living, 2224 Yew Street Rd. Talks and demos, WRITERS’ THEATER: Poetry, fiction and mem- practitioners, readers, healers and products will STAGE oir scribes can read from their works at the be part of the event. Admission is free. monthly Writers’ Theater at 7pm at the Fire- 734-4160 18 house Café, 1314 Harris Ave. The event is free. PENNIES FOR PENNY: A benefit auction, raf- 3487!Nbjo!Tusffu-!Tvjuf!4 676-5853 fle, live music and food will be available today’s Gfsoebmf-!XB!:9359 “Pennies for Penny” fundraiser from 12-4pm at GET OUT THURS., JUNE 11 the Eagles Hall, 1125 N. State St. (Penny is a lo- )471*!495.3:11 CHILDREN’S LIT: If you’re interested in writ- cal mother of four who is recovering from a bone xxx/cfuufsifbmuiczdipjdf/dpn!!!!!Dpwfsfe!cz!nptu!jotvsbodf!qmbot ing for the younger set, attend an info ses- marrow transplant.) 16 35!zfbst!pg!fyqfsjfodf 16 sion for WWU’s “Writing Children’s Literature” 319-7217 jo!dmjojdbm!qsbdujdf XpnfoÖt!Ifbmui!Dbsf extended ed program at 7pm at Village Books, STREET LAW: Lawyers will volunteer their time WORDS 1200 11th St. and advice at the bimonthly “Street Law” from WORDS 650-6854 OR VILLAGEBOOKS.COM 1-4pm on the corner of Railroad Avenue and SAT., JUNE 13 Magnolia Street. The free event happens again June 27. 8 SUMMER READING: Kids can check out area 671-6079 OR LAWADVOCATES.ORG libraries for “Summer Reading” kickoff events today. Silly Dan the Magic Man will be at the SEARCH FOR SASQUATCH: Captain Dave But- ton talks about “The Search for Sasquatch on R5 .#)(5) 5 &)(35),5 #- ' (),5)(0# .#)(- following venues: 10:30am at Everson Library, CURRENTS the Skagit River” from 4-6pm at the Canterbury R5 -.),.#)(5) 5).#(!5#!".- 12:45pm at the Lynden Library, and 3pm at the R5 -.),.#)(5) 5/(5#!".- Blaine Library. Young magician Sterling Dietz Court Clubhouse, 3710 Canterbury Lane. Entry R5 &#(!5 /0 (#& 5)(0# .#)(5 ), - 6 will be on hand at 2pm at the Bellingham Public is free. Library event. 752-1824 Daelyn R. Julius VIEWS VIEWS WCLS.ORG hhh5,( 50 865. 85 #& &'%$""! JUNE 13-14 Criminal Defense Attorney &&#(!"'655onhhk 1118 /-.# %8 )' SEATTLE NOIR: Robert Lopresti, Paul S. Piper, LOGGING SHOW: The 47th annual Deming Log- 4 and Curt Colbert will read from the Seattle Noir ging Show happens from 11am-7pm through the collection at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th weekend at the Deming Logging Show Grounds. MAIL St. Hot saw bucking, speed climbing, log rolling, Quality Yarns, Books, Equipment, Supplies
VILLAGEBOOKS.COM axe throwing, food and music and much more for the Knitter, Spinner and Weaver, 2 will be part of the festivities. Entry is $3-$6. Classes and Gifts.
SUN., JUNE 15 IT DO 592-3051 OR DEMINGLOGGINGSHOW.COM BBQ FOR LITERACY: Alma Alexander, Carol Reed Jones, Rosina Lippi, Nina Laden, Paul SUN., JUNE 14 KNIT NIGHT every Tuesday 5:30-8:00pm 09 09 Owen Lewis, and others will be on hand at to- PICKETT HOUSE: Take a tour of the oldest KNIT DAY every Wednesday 1:00-3:00pm day’s “BBQ for Literacy” meet and greet from wooden structure in Washington State at an .10. 06 12-3pm at the Cordata Co-op. Entry is free, open house from 1-4pm at the Pickett House, www.NWHandspunYarns.com t (360) 738-0167 lunch is $3. 910 Bancroft St.
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Hours: 10-6 Mon.-Sat., 11-3 Sun. # MON., JUNE 15 MON., JUNE 15 POETRY NIGHT: Sign up to read from your writ- ROCKS AND GEMS: All are invited to the monthly ten words at the weekly Poetry Night at 8pm meeting of the Mt. Baker Rock & Gem Club at 7pm at the Darkroom, 310 W. Champion St. Readings at Bloedel Donovan, 2214 Electric Ave. begin at 8:30pm. 384-3187 POETRYNIGHT.ORG TUES., JUNE 16
TUES., JUNE 16 BORDER PATROL: Dr. David L. Curley will give CASCADIA WEEKLY CRAZY STORM: Norm Ollestad reads from his a talk on “Border Patrol: Afghanistan/Pakistan” autobiographical tome, Crazy for the Storm, at at 1pm at the First Congregational Church, 2401 17 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Cornwall Ave. 671-2626 371-5507 doit
JUNE 11-14 STOMMISH FESTIVAL: The 63rd annual 38 38 Lummi Stommish Water Festival happens
FOOD through the weekend on the shores of Gooseberry Point on the Lummi Reserva- getout tion. 32 32 HIKING RUNNING CYCLING STOMMISH.COM SAT., JUNE 13 BOATING SAFETY: A “Boating Safety”
CLASSIFIEDS workshop takes place from 8am-4:30pm at the Squalicum Yacht Club on Harbor Loop Rd. Cost is $25.
28 28 ity to the sun. If you’ve ever massacred ants with 733-5633 OR BLIAUX.COM a magnifying glass, you know the sun could easily VOLKSWALK: Choose from a 3.8- or 6.2- FILM FILM melt us, like giant chocolate bars, if it were ever mile walk when you hook up with the NW to get a few magnificent degrees closer. When we Tulip Trekkers for a free Volkswalk starting at 9am at Daniels Field in Anacortes. 24 crawl, we instantly double the distance between NWTREKKERS.ORG us, and the terrible, vengeful sun. HUMAN RACE: The Whatcom Volunteer MUSIC Go barefoot. I know what some of you are Center hosts today’s annual Human Race thinking: I’m not gonna walk into WECU look- starting at 10am at Maritime Heritage Park, 22 22 ing like a dirty hippie! Not to worry. It would 1600 C St. Cost is $15, and you can raise ad-
ART ART be entirely irresponsible for me to write a “tips” ditional funds for your favorite nonprofit by column without considering the diversity of the getting pledges. 734-3055 OR WHATCOMVOLUNTEER.ORG 19 audience to which I am writing; for some of you WORK PARTY: For 10am-12pm, attend a it will be easy to shed your claustrophobic cot- work party and help weed the newly planted STAGE STAGE ton socks and part the green grass with your hillside above the stone bridge at Whatcom stinky feet; others of us face the oppression of Falls Park. 18 18 18 bosses and business casual. If the latter applies COB.ORG to you, there is a surprisingly simple solution: go FUN RUN: The 15th annual Tesoro March to Griggs Office Supplies and buy a few markers. Point Fun Run begins at 10am at March Point GET OUT GET OUT in Anacortes. Cost is $10, free for kids. When you get back to the office, slip into the (360) 293-9132 bathroom and color your feet to look like shoes. PARK AND BARK: The “Bark in the Park”
16 Douse a friend. The only true relief from op- Dog Festival happens from 10am-3pm at pressive heat like this is cold, cascading water. Storvik Park in Anacortes. ANACORTESDOGPARK.COM WORDS When we were children, hot days were for going to the lake or skidding on the slip-n-slide, but SAFE SEAS: A “Safe Sea Kayaking in the as we grow older most of us find other things to PNW” slide presentation and two-hour guid-
8 ed kayaking outing happens from 1-5pm do besides hanging out all day in our swimsuits. at the Bellingham Bay Community Boating However, I’ve come up with an adult solution to Center, 501 Harris Ave. The event is free, our purely adult problem: just ask a friend or co- but registration is required. CURRENTS CURRENTS worker to dump a bucket of cold water on your SAILPADDLEROW.ORG head when you least expect it.
6 SUN., JUNE 14 “Ice cube” your armpits. This is a tip for ADAPTIVE KAYAKING: A free “Adaptive those of us who are a little too shy to douse a and Beginner Paddling Workshop” will be VIEWS VIEWS friend, but wish to beat the heat just the same. held from 12-5pm at Bloedel Donovan, 2214 Electric Ave. 4 It goes like this: take two ice cubes from the SAILPADDLEROW.ORG BY PATRICK O’TOOLE freezer, gently place them in your armpits, and MAIL MAIL then casually disappear back into the humdrum MON., JUNE 15
of work, school or whatever; only now with a BACKPACKING 101: Glean details about 2 little warm-weather secret, and a thoroughly the basics at a free “Backpacking 101” clinic at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St. DO IT IT DO Letters from Lake cooled core. A variation to this tip is called the 647-8955 “temperate triangle,” which introduces a third SURFER’S TALE: Amy Waeschle shares tales
09 09 cube, but it’s not for beginners. from Chasing Waves: A Surfer’s Tale of Obses-
.10. Squalicum Complain. Misery loves company, and there sive Wandering at 7pm at Village Books, 06 is nothing more miserable than being hot and 1200 11th St. TOO HOT TO TROT lonely, so turn to a fellow commuter and say 671-2626 .04
23 something like, “Boy, it’s hot!” No doubt this TUES., JUNE 16 # “Hot town, summer in the city, back of my neck getting dirty and gritty. Been will spark an interesting conversation, and per- LEARN TO BIRD: Ken Salzman will lead a down, isn’t it a pity? Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city. All around, peo- haps a lasting friendship. And let’s face it; there “Learn to Bird” class starting at 7pm at the ple looking half dead. Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head…” are a few hard-to-reach places when markering Whatcom Museum’s Syre Education Center. The event is free, but you must register by —LOVIN’ SPOONFUL on a new pair of slacks, and it never hurts to June 12. have an extra set of eyes. 778-8960 IT’S HOT. Hotter than a jalapeno in a hula skirt. People are slithering And if none of this helps just remember the TRAIL MIX: Expand your culinary camp-
CASCADIA WEEKLY down the streets of Bellingham like giant, sweaty slugs—and, unfortu- words of the Lovin’ Spoonful, “…at night, it’s a ing talents at a free “Backcountry Cooking” nately, at this point Global Warming facts and figures won’t help us any; different world. Go out and find a girl. Come-on, clinic at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St. 18 what we need is something to cool our jets. So here are a few tips to help come-on, and dance all night. Despite the heat 647-8955 you beat the heat. it will be alright.” Crawl. After doing a little Internet research, I have come to understand For more Letters from Lake Squalicum go to this heat wave we are experiencing is directly related to our planet’s proxim- lakesqualicum.blogspot.com doit
STAGE you eat. Additional showings happen through July 20. WED., JUNE 10 RIVERBELLEDINNERTHEATRE. 38 INTRO TO IMPROV: Learn to COM FOOD think on your feet at a free SAT., JUNE 13 stage introductory improv class ROOSTER: The four-man im-
happening at 7pm at 302 W. 32 THEATER DANCE PROFILES Illinois St. Instructor Sheila prov group known as Rooster Goldsmith will lead the way. performs at a fundraiser for 756-0756 “Off the Mat, Into the World”— who are aiming to generate
TALENT SHOW: Students from CLASSIFIEDS funds for villages and children Lincoln Elementary will per- in Uganda—at 8pm at Melody form at an annual Talent Show
Hall, 4071 Home Rd. Tickets 28 at 7pm at Mount Vernon’s Lin- are $10-$12. coln Theatre, 712 S. First St.
OFFTHEMATINTOTHEWORLD. FILM Admission is by donation. meetings and did not let the doctor take ORG his pulse. One day, he came into town LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG
with a unicorn. The countess of the land THURS., JUNE 11 SUN., JUNE 14 24 COMEDY NIGHT: A weekly was at first jealous, then angry, then GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch Comedy Night happens at 8pm “The Good, the Bad and the MUSIC made her hubby, the count, procure a every Sunday at the Fairhaven Ugly” at 8pm at the Upfront unicorn for her, as well. Pub & Martini Bar, 1114 Har-
Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, 22 ris Ave. When the man next came to the public stick around for “The Project:
FAIRHAVENPUB.COM ART square, it was with a snake-headed Gor- Mad Comedy in the Making.” gon in tow. The countess was infuriated, Cost is $5 for the early show, 19 and ended up poisoning her unicorn $3 for the late one. DANCE 19 before making her henpecked husband THEUPFRONT.COM STAGE STAGE find a Gorgon for her, too. The cycle re- JUNE 11-14 FRI., JUNE 12 STAGE peated when the man brought a horrify- THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE: SUMMER LOVE: Don a sum- mer dress or fancy Hawaiian ing, Sphinx-like Manticore into the town Watch a musical retelling of 18 shirt for tonight’s “Summer square. This beast was not so pretty, but Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors when The Boys from Syracuse Love” semiformal dance hap- she wanted one, whatever it took. When pening from 9-11pm at U & Me shows at 8pm Thurs.-Sat. and GET OUT the countess thought the man had got- 2pm Sun. at the Bellingham Dance, 1027 N. Forest St. Entry ten rid of his Manticore, it was lights Theatre Guild, 1600 H St. Ex- is $7-$12. pect mistaken identities, ship- UANDMEDANCE.COM out for the animal. I won’t give away the 16 ending, but suffice it to say the count- wrecks and, perhaps, happy SAT., JUNE 13 endings. Tickets are $8-$12.
ess’ murderous rampage was for naught. FERRY BOAT DANCE: The WORDS 733-1811 OR Bellingham Country Dance “It was hard trying to wrap my brain BELLINGHAMTHEATREGUILD.COM Society will host its annual around the story,” Bishop says of the CHILDREN’S HOUR: Secrets,
“Ferry Boat Dance” on the af- 8 lies and scandals will take cen- strange tale. “There is a lot of metaphor, ternoon ferry from Anacortes ter stage when The Children’s and it’s a very psychological piece. That to Friday Harbor and back. Hour shows at 7:30pm Thurs., can be challenging for dancers, because 676-1554 OR
8pm Fri.-Sat., and 2pm Sun. CURRENTS PHOTO BY GREG MCCRACKEN GREG BY PHOTO BELLINGHAMCOUNTRYDANCE.ORG there’s a lot of pantomime, which can be at the Anacortes Community Seth Wetherby (the man) and Miye Bishop (the unicorn) rehearse for the June 13 difficult if you haven’t done a lot of it.” Theatre, 918 M Ave. Tickets production. JUNE 13-14 6 The dancers seem up to the task, are $16 and additional shows DANCING FOR JOY: Watch though, and have managed to infuse the happen through June 27. movement that explores the ACTTHEATRE.COM VIEWS BY AMY KEPFERLE rarely performed opera with both hu- different seasons of life when Dancing for Joy brings “A
mor and pathos (not to mention some 4 JUNE 11-17 Time to Dance” to the stage BARD ON THE BEACH: Othel- nimble moves). By the time they finally at 6:30pm at the Mount Baker lo, The Comedy of Errors, All’s MAIL meet with the Bellingham Chamber Cho- Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Well That Ends Well, and Richard rale members for a live rehearsal—for Tickets are $10. Myth and Music 2 II play in repertory through 734-6080 OR now, they’re working with a prerecorded Sept. 26 during the 20th sea- MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM DO IT IT DO THE UNICORN, THE GORGON AND THE score—they’re hop- son of Bard on the Beach at
MANTICORE ing the final pieces Vancouver, B.C.’s Vanier Park. will fall into place. Ticket prices vary. 09 BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG “Tim Fitzpatrick .10. JEALOUSY, MURDER, music, mythical creatures and life wanted it to be rep- JUNE 12-13 06 lessons can be found under one roof this weekend when Gian Carlo resentative of bal- CAGE MATCH: Attend “Cage- match” shows—where each .04 Menotti’s The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore brings a few let, not just choir,” 23 of Bellingham’s arts organizations together for a unique evening of Bishop says, “so I team has equal time to wow # the audience—at 9pm at the entertainment. came up with my own Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Choreographer John Bishop, of Northwest Ballet, says he was aware SEE IT choreography, with WHAT: The Uni- Tickets are $8-$10. of the Italian composer’s “madrigal fable,” but, on his own, wouldn’t corn, the Gorgon the reference points 733-8855 have thought of bringing it to life. After receiving a call from Bell- and the Manticore being the music and OR THEUPFRONT.COM ingham Chamber Chorale’s Tim Fitzpatrick, though, he agreed to get WHEN: 8pm Sat., the score. Now that SPITFIRE GRILL: Watch the on board. With help from Bellingham Repertory Dance members and June 13 I’ve done the cho- musical Spitfire Grill and have Head to the Bellingham Theatre CASCADIA WEEKLY Guild this weekend for your Northwest Ballet stalwarts such as Seth Wetherby, they’ve been busy WHERE: Performing reography for it and some supper at 7:30pm at Arts Center, WWU Mount Vernon’s RiverBelle final shot at seeing The Boys of 19 rehearsing to give the story legs. COST: $12-$15 seen what the danc- Dinner Theatre, 100 E. Mont- Syracuse. If music and mistaken For those who are unaware of the tale, here’s a quick primer: once INFO: 650-6146 or ers are doing with it, gomery. Tickets are $16-$40, identities aren’t enough to lure upon a time, an odd man lived in a mythical castle. According to bellinghamcham- it’s become an inter- depending on whether or not you in, don’t forget about the Menotti’s score, he shunned the countess’ parties, yawned at town berchorale.org esting project.” togas!
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38 38 WED., JUNE 10 PHOTO CONTEST: Residents and visitors FOOD can enter the “Lummi Island in Springtime” visual photo contest through June 20. Entry costs
32 32 are $2-$8, and proceeds will benefit Friends GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES of Island Library. 758-7145 FRI., JUNE 12 CLASSIFIEDS NORTHWEST PAINTERS RECEPTION: Works by Carol Weiss, Pat Fleeson, Carol
28 28 Merrick, Gerry Friberg, Esther McLatchey, and Meredith Runstrand will be repre-
FILM FILM sented at an opening reception for the Northwest Painters’ 30th anniversary show from 6-9pm at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301
24 W. Holly St. The works will be on display through June 26.
MUSIC 671-2305 OR BLUEHORSEGALLERY.COM SAT., JUNE 13 22 22 22 22 GROUND FLOOR: A grand opening for the ART ART ART ART Ground Floor happens from 11am-4pm at “Our thought for this 1105 N. State St. (enter via the alley en- trance behind the Farmers Market). The free, 19 year’s ‘Salmon at the interactive event will feature installation Bay’ was to honor our art, food and lots of fun. STAGE STAGE community’s history of [email protected] salmon fishing and can- PRINT INVITATIONAL: Works by 20 of our
18 ning,” says Randy Lev- region’s finest artists working in various enthal, Advancement print techniques can be seen at an opening Coordinator at NSEA. reception for the “Summer 2009 Print Invi- GET OUT tational” from 5-7pm at the Lucia Douglas ATTEND “‘Yes We Can’ parallels Gallery, 1415 13th St. The exhibit will be up WHAT: Salmon at our efforts and vision through July 25. the Bay
16 733-5361 OR LUCIADOUGLAS.COM WHEN: 12pm-12am, for the hope of salmon Sat., June 13 recovery. It’s an op- SMITH AND VALLEE: A reception featur- ing new works using sustainably harvested
WORDS WHERE: Boundary portunity to celebrate Bay Brewery, 1107 community and salmon woods and salvaged trees by Wes Smith Railroad Ave. and Andrew Vallee can be seen at an open- together.” ing reception for the artists from 5-8pm at
8 COST: Lunch is $10; dinner is $20; Unlike past years, Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey concert is $8 where salmon-shaped Ave. The works can be seen from 11am-5pm BY AMY KEPFERLE INFO: 715-0283 or templates were given every Fri.-Sun. through June 28. CURRENTS CURRENTS n-sea.org to participating artists (360) 305-4892 OR SMITHANDVALLEE.COM to fill in the blanks, this SUN., JUNE 14 6 year’s event was more open, and will include DECEPTION SKETCHING: Naturalist and everything from oil paintings to watercolors, artist Libby Mills will helm a “Field Sketch-
VIEWS VIEWS Art That Swims stenographs, lithographs, recycled metal, ing at Deception Pass” outing today at Deception Pass State Park. Cost is $95 and
4 SALMON AT THE BAY wood and ceramic sculptures and jewelry. includes lunch. While not every piece will feature renderings (360) 856-5700 OR NCASCADES.ORG MAIL MAIL of the iconic fish as its main focus, it’ll be at TUES., JUNE 16 wend their way through the streams, rivers and tributaries the heart of each and every one of them. 2 WHILE THEY LIGHTCATCHER UPDATE: Patricia Leach of Whatcom County, the salmon that spawn each year in local waters are likely Since the donated artwork will be up will give an update about the new Light- DO IT IT DO unaware of all that’s happening aboveground to help them get to where they through Aug. 15, don’t worry if you can’t catcher Building scheduled to open in No- need to go. make it to the kickoff event. If you do go, vember at a free brown bag talk at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St. 09 09 But thanks to folks at the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association though, consider asking representatives WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG .10. (NSEA)—who’ve been “serving salmon” since 1992—the underwater deni- from NSEA how you can help, and find out 06 zens can breathe a little easier. With a mission to restore and retain sustain- what they’re doing in the here and now able wild salmon runs in Whatcom County, the group reports that, last year, to make a difference. Because salmon are ONGOING EXHIBITS .04
23 volunteers and students contributed 27,000 hours to helping clean up fishy an indicator species—meaning their well- ALLIED ARTS: “Journeys,” including pieces # habitats. Eighty work parties were held, and 17,000 native trees and shrubs being reflects other facets of the environ- by Linda Bergeron, Yvette Neumann, Tom were planted. ment—they are a vital element of the land Semple, and Chris Shreve, shows through To celebrate the efforts of those who’ve put muscle behind their visions, raise and waters. June at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. funds for future projects and educate those who are unaware of NSEA’s mission, “When people ask me what our benefit is, 676-8548 BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The the entity will host its 7th annual “Salmon at the Bay” June 13 at Boundary I tell them we’re demonstrating our com- museum is open to the public from noon- Bay Brewery. A plethora of art focusing on the theme “Yes We Can! Our Hope mitment to the health of Whatcom County 5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commer-
CASCADIA WEEKLY for Our Salmon” will be up for auction, and both lunch (12-3pm) and dinner in general,” Leventhal says. “Stream res- cial St. (5:30-8:30pm) salmon barbecues will be on the menu (yes, the fish served will toration is invaluable. It’s such a critical 393-7540 22 have been sustainably harvested). Live music by Celtic purveyors Warren Street piece that speaks to more than just salmon. BIG FAT FISH: “Human Condition,” an ex- Station aim to lighten up the sunny part of the festivities, while Lucky Brown It’s why I think our theme this year helps hibit featuring works by Rebecca Meloy, Rob- and the Funk Revolution take the stage to provide grooves at a 9:30pm, 21-plus tie a lot of those pieces—environment, ert Finnegan, Rachel Forman, Jackie Hunsk- dance party in the beer garden. culture, community—in.” doit er, and Cathy Fields, will be up through July
at the Big Fat Fish Co., 1304 12th St.
U U 38 733-2284 BLUE HORSE: “Light, Form and Perspec- FOOD tive,” a one-woman show by Bellingham art- ist Laurie Potter, can be seen until June 27 at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. FREE WiFi!- 32 671-2305 CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Brett Baunton’s landscape and outdoor photography works are on display through June 13 at the Chuck- TUES-SUN 5-11PM CLASSIFIEDS anut Brewery, 601 W. Holly St. 752-3377
LIVE MUSIC 28 DEPOT ARTS CENTER: The 5th annual Cas- cade Clay Artists’ exhibit and sale, “Clay, TUES-THUR-SAT 8PM FILM Fire and Form,” can be seen until June 28 at the Gallery at the Depot, 611 R Ave, Ana-
cortes. 1053 N. STATE ST. -ALLEY 24 (360) 293-3663 DOWNTOWN BELLINGHAM
DIGS: Kelly Bjork’s mixed media drawings MUSIC can be perused through June 30 at DIGS, Production Wineryt Wine Bar 200 W. Holly St. 22 Light Appetizers & Desserts 22 306-8301 ART ART GOOD EARTH: Clay artists Eugene and Ene ART Lewis will be featured through June at Good
Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. We’re one mile west of I-5 on Grandview road. Exit 266 in Ferndale 19 GOODEARTHPOTS.COM Tuesday-Saturday 10-6. 360-366-4013
INSIGHTS: Gallery artists will take part STAGE in the “Summer Show” on display until July 31 at Insights Gallery, 516 Commercial Ave.,
Anacortes. 18 INSIGHTSGALLERY.COM MINDPORT: “Bones: Essential Grace” shows GET OUT through July 14 at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. Entry is $2. MINDPORT.ORG 16 MONA: “Finds Refined” and “Phillip Levine Survey: Sculpture, Drawings, Paintings” can be perused through June 14 at La Conner’s WORDS Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. (360) 466-4446 OR MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG
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FOOD pray. Many of us probably had no idea who, exactly, we were praying to, but we all knew what we prayed for: the safe return of Gunther 32 32 music Frank and Sean Mansfield, who went missing PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT in Bellingham Bay after a late-night windstorm capsized Gunther’s sailboat, throwing them
CLASSIFIEDS into the frigid water. As of press time, our prayers have not been
28 28 answered. What was, last Friday, when word of the accident and subsequent search began to FILM FILM circulate among Gunther and Sean’s legion of friends, disbelief cautiously balanced by hope, 24 24 is becoming resignation tempered with the pain of a loss that has not begun to be truly MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC felt. The disbelief remains, but is now directed toward an inconceivably nightmarish out- 22 22 come we are not yet ready to accept.
ART ART MUSICpreview For me, as with so many others, this
19 loss is a deeply per- BY CAREY ROSS sonal one. I first met STAGE STAGE Sean—Donnkie to most everyone who
18 knew him—almost a Urban Music Festival decade ago, when he burst into my life, on BY CAREY ROSS GET OUT SHEER SONIC SATURATION rollerblades, no less, making me laugh so hard I had a difficult
16 time catching my breath. It was an auspi- cious and memorable beginning to a casual
WORDS acquaintance that would marked by many such mischief-filled and laughter-laden scenes over the years. 8 My association with Gunther dates just as far back—if not farther—than that. My relation- ship with him began as a professional one, but CURRENTS CURRENTS quickly morphed into a longstanding friend- ship. I was, like so many of you, drawn to his 6 goofy good nature and the singularly unique way he viewed his world. I’m not sure what VIEWS VIEWS Gunther got out of it, but I was happy to be
4 one of the many, many friends he seemingly effortlessly accumulated during the course of MAIL MAIL his varied and interesting life.
To know Gunther, was to be photographed 2 by him—how you might’ve felt about hav- ACORN DO IT IT DO PROJECT ing your picture taken notwithstanding. And while I never thought I’d ever say this, I’m
09 09 grateful for all the times he stuck that ever-
.10. present camera in my face and blinded me 06 with its flash. When it came to his camera, he could never leave well enough alone, and be- .04
23 SINCE ITS inception five years ago, the annual Urban Mu- Initially, the festival was dreamed up cause of that we now have a visual chronicle, # sic Festival has gone from being merely a decent-sized show and executed by Acorn Productions, the not only of his life, but of ours as well. The featuring a few popular, likeminded bands, and has become a same folks capable of drawing hundreds of world seen through his lens is a vibrant and musical behemoth of sorts. Case in point: this year’s incarnation people every time they take the stage as colorful place, haunting and hilarious by turns, features no less than 14 bands, which will appear on a multi- the much beloved Acorn Project (who are and infused with the peculiar beauty that was tude of stages at two venues during what is now a weekend-long set to headline one of Saturday’s shows). part of everything he created. It is perhaps the festival. And while the focus of the event is definitely on its These days, their efforts—the net result of hardest irony that the photographer whose
CASCADIA WEEKLY musical components, there’s still ample room enough in the fes- which has grown into a pretty sizey under- pictures ooze with noise and vitality, light and tival’s schedule and on its stages for such entertainments as an taking, to say the least—are augmented by life might no longer be with us. But literally 24 interactive community art project, light show, fire dancers, local those of pretty much every other local con- thousands of his photographs are, each one a vendors and more. cert promoter including the Blessed Coast precious gift and a piece of an artistic legacy So, what exactly is the Urban Music Festival, and how did it come Sound System, Boogie Universal, Conquest we are all enormously lucky to be part of. to be? URBAN, CONTIUED ON NEXT PAGE RUMOR, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE MUSIC preview miscMUSIC
Unplugged” at 7:30pm FRI., JUNE 12 at Mount Vernon’s McIn- San Francisco band Mind Orchestra’s RUMOR, LEE TYLER: “Rock n’ soul 38 URBAN MUSIC, gypsy troubadour” Lee tyre Hall, 2501 E. College electronica, the psychedelic blues of Way. Tickets are $25. FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Tyler Post gives a free FOOD FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Seattle’s Brothers Coolley (no strang- performance from 7-9pm MCINTYREHALL.ORG ers to the Buffalo’s stage), or one of at Stuart’s at the Market,
SUN., JUNE 14 32 Presents, and BuildStrong. All of this co- the many local acts, such as the more But this tragedy has made 1530 Cornwall Ave. CONCERT ON THE 714-0800 promotion and musical cross-pollination rock-oriented Growers, the jazzy bent me oddly grateful for other GREEN: Frank Sinatra makes for a festival that will not only of the Hedonists, the soulful sounds things as well. Grateful for SAT., JUNE 13 (a.k.a. Arthur Alder) will take over the stage at the Wild Buffalo of Vaughn Kreestoe, or the weird and the community of people join the Northern Lights CONCERT IN THE PARK: CLASSIFIEDS Friday and Saturday June 12-13, but wonderful Savage Henry, the Urban who, at this moment, are The Paperboys bring Jazz Orchestra for a will also likely draw a capacity crowd to Music Festival offers a little some- searching rocky shorelines their Irish, Mexican, and performance from 1:30- 3:30pm at Fairhaven’s 28 Boundary Bay’s beer garden Friday night, thing for every music-loving soul. In and wooded areas, looking Roots-inspired music to the stage to kick off the Village Green. Admission and will spill over into the alley next to fact, there is little danger of not find- for something—anything— FILM “Summer Music” evening is by donation. the Wild Buffalo (the former home of ing something to love at the festival, so the families may have an- concert series from 7-9pm ARTHURALDER.COM BIG BAND: The Swing Downtown Sounds, really the only risk is reaching your swers and we all might have a at Bellingham’s Boulevard 24 24 for those of you who musical saturation point—or crippling little peace. Grateful for their Park. Additional concerts Connection Big Band happen through the sea- performs from 2-4pm at MUSIC
are unfamiliar with yourself with too much dancing and perseverance and their hope. MUSIC the Leopold Hotel, 1224 the locale) Saturday sheer revelry—before the last band In not giving up the search, son at Elizabeth Park, Big Rock Garden Park, and Cornwall Ave. The event night. So, for those takes the stage Saturday night. they are helping us all find the Bellingham Public is free, and you can 22 of you who are keep- Although the Urban Music Festival our way through this. Library lawn. All concerts dance along. ART ART ing track, that’s 14 comes with a pretty reasonable price During the past several are free. SWINGCONNECTION.ORG bands, two nights, tag—an advance pass for both nights at days, I have had the oppor- 778-7000 SCOT RANNEY: Enjoy 19 two venues, three HEAR both venues will only run you $20—the tunity to watch the people ALUMNI BAND: The an afternoon of original piano music when Scot WHAT: Urban Mu- Bellingham High School stages and a whole deal gets even sweeter if you happen to who care about Donnkie and Ranney explores the “Mu- STAGE sic Festival feat. Alumni band will perform lotta music making. be a recent graduate. One of the pur- Gunther care for each other. sic of Summer” at a free Acorn Project, at 7pm at the Bellingham Speaking of poses of the fest, aside from bringing It is an enormously powerful Golf and Country Club, gig at 2pm at the What-
Mind Orchestra, 18 com Museum, 121 Pros- music—as that is Ten Mile Tide, the community together in the name of thing, and without that care, 3729 Meridian St. Danc- pect St. the whole point of more good music and a good time, is to cel- this hard, sad time would be ing and live music by 10 Feet Thick will follow. WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG this sonic soiree— WHEN: Fri. and ebrate graduation (college graduation, much harder and sadder for GET OUT Sat., June 12-13 Tickets are $15. despite the fact that is, not the high school kind, as the many of us. I am grateful for BHSALUMNIBAND.ORG MON., JUNE 15 WHERE: Wild Buf- SYMPHONY OF INFAMY: that Acorn Project festival is not all ages). As such, newly that as well. Immeasurably so. FINNISH FINESSE: falo, 208 W. Holly Members of the Music 16 is an integral part minted grads get in free to Saturday’s While the loss of Donnkie and Janne Mertanen, a re- St.; Boundary Bay Club at Whatcom Commu- nowned Finnish pianist, of the Urban Music Brewery, 1107 festivities, making this a way better Gunther leaves an enormous nity College will perform will perform a variety of WORDS Festival, and one Railroad Ave. graduation party than whatever else well of sadness behind, even a “Symphony of Infamy” COST: Free-$25 classical works at 7pm at of the event’s main you happened to have in mind. now that well is being filled at 6:30pm in the Heiner the Whatcom Museum, MORE INFO: Auditorium. Admission is draws, they’re cer- Even if you don’t come bearing your by a million tiny kindnesses. 121 Prospect St. Tickets 8 739-5430 by donation. tainly not the only brand-spanking college degree, and all That is also their legacy. And I are $18-$20. WHATCOM.CTC.EDU band on the roster. the fancy higher learning that comes can’t imagine a more appropri- 714-8600 SEATTLE MEN’S CHO- Music both local and regional can be with it, it doesn’t take a genius to fig- ate or fitting one. CURRENTS heard at the fest, all loosely grouped ure out that the Urban Music Festival You are so incredibly loved, RUS: The Seattle Men’s Chorus gives an a capella and unified by their “urban” sound. is a sound investment in some solid Gunther and Donnkie. We will 6 concert dubbed “SMC So, whether this takes the form of sonic merrymaking. miss you. We already do. VIEWS VIEWS 4 MAIL MAIL
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ART ART The Limits of Control JARMUSCH’S LONG, STRANGE TRIP 19 STAGE STAGE
raven-haired mystery girl (Paz de la Huer-
18 ta) in high heels, a see-through raincoat and nothing else. This woman is, depend- ing on your view, a kind of film-noir muse GET OUT or a parody of a femme fatale. (Or both.) In fact, for the impatient viewer, Jar-
16 musch’s pulpy, poetic exercise will prob- ably feel hopelessly, unintentionally pa-
WORDS rodic, prompting disdain and derision. Consider yourself warned: not everyone’s going to go for this business. But I did. 8 The Limits of Control is an odyssey where small moments loom large, and where the simplest of pleasures take on, if not a CURRENTS CURRENTS deeper significance, a more mindful one. Shot by Wong Kar Wai’s great cinema- 6 tographer, Christopher Doyle, The Limits of Control opens with a shot of De Bankole VIEWS VIEWS in an airport men’s room stall, doing tai
4 chi—a silent ritual he continues through- out the film. Full of great architecture and MAIL MAIL art (the Lone Man, as he is called in the
credits, visits a Madrid museum, where he 2 studies paintings keenly), the film boasts PHOTO BY TERESA ISASI DO IT IT DO a soundtrack alert to the noises of the street, the rhythms and hums of a city.
09 09 THE PROCESS of travel—of getting from Point A to Point B, and the as he moves into town, goes to a cafe, The movie, like Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog (with
.10. unexpected encounters, detours, and downtime presented to the traveler— orders two single espressos (not a dou- Forest Whitaker as a kindred sort of hit- 06 has long been a theme of Jim Jarmusch’s films. ble), and, well, waits. Eventually someone man hero), displays a Zenlike awareness of Night on Earth, after all, is about taxi drivers and the fares they pick up meanders by, sits at his table, asks if he the sensorial and auditory universe. .04
23 in various cities around the globe. Bill Murray’s quest to find a long-lost speaks Spanish (he says he doesn’t), and The Limits of Control succumbs to genre # son in Broken Flowers isn’t really about finding that son, it’s about the jour- then slips him a matchbox containing a convention in its final act, offering a frus- ney, about his encounters with the women along the way—his character’s piece of paper written in code. tratingly fateful meeting between this exes—and discovering what they’ve become, and maybe discovering what The someones he meets along the man we’ve been accompanying and the he’s become, too. way—in Madrid, in Seville, in the parched man that is the reason for all this travel, So it’s no surprise to find that the pioneer indie filmmaker’s take on the Spanish countryside—include Tilda Swin- all this trouble. international thriller—and that’s what The Limits of Control is—isn’t exactly ton, blond-wigged and talking Hitchcock; I would have preferred to have watched
CASCADIA WEEKLY teeming with elaborate action sequences and grand confrontations. John Hurt, sporting a guitar case and a De Bankole simply head for another town, Almost absurdly quiet and observant, The Limits of Control is about the worried mien; and Gael Garcia Bernal, act- to another cafe. Let the Lone Man order 28 space between the action, the steps along the way. Set in Spain and starring ing tough and driving a truck. two more single espressos and see who the mesmerizing Isaach De Bankole (the Parisian cabbie in Night on Earth, De Bankole's character drops in on a turns the corner to strike up a conversa- and also the exiled African prime minister on this season’s nothing-but- club to watch (and listen to) a flamenco tion. Who needs violence? Who needs action 24), Jarmusch’s movie essentially follows its unnamed protagonist dance, and has several encounters with a conclusion? NOOKSACK RIVER CASINO PRESENTS SCHEDULE 38 38 Classic Rock Festival FOOD July 18 FREE, all-day rock tribute 32 32 festival. See our website for full list of acts.
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MUSIC time, come along and saved yet another multi-jil- The Bicyclists: Crisply lensed in Portland, south- lion-dollar movie franchise on the brink of celluloid west Washington, and eastern Oregon, Carl Jame- death. Next stop for him: the Oval Office. You know, 22 22 son's film is a promising romantic narrative with a just in case Obama could use the help. ★★★ (PG-13
ART ART twist—and a bike lover's feature-length dream. The tISTNJO filmmaker will be on hand for this very special show- 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]] ing, so come prepared to pepper him with questions 19 and commentary. ★★★★ 6OSBUFEtISNJO To Have and Have Not: If there's anything sexier 1JDLGPSE5IVST!]4BU4VO! than Lauren Bacall saying to Humphrey Bogart, "You STAGE STAGE do know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just Drag Me To Hell: Before Sam Raimi got all tangled up scene stealer in this show with his rendition of Phil #FMMJT'BJSBN]]]]] put your lips together and... blow," than I sure don't in Spider-Man's web, he made horror flicks (Evil Dead, Collins' "In the Air Tonight." Oh, Iron Mike, what will ]]] know what it is. Based on a book by Hemingway, 18 BOZPOF UIBU BMPOHXJUICFJOHTDBSZ XFSFBMTPTUZMJTI you do next? ★★★★ 3tISNJO scripted by Faulkner and helmed by Hawks, this is and surprisingly funny. This one's no different. Turns The Limits of Control: See review previous page. ★★★★★ 4FIPNF$BMMGPSTIPXUJNFT one sweet piece of cinema. 6OSBUFEt out, all roads in the horror genre don't actually lead to ★★★★ 3tISNJO ISNJO GET OUT torture porn. Who knew? ★★★★ 1( Imagine That: Eddie Murphy has gone from making 1JDLGPSE]]'SJ4BU! 1JDLGPSE5IVST! 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]] movies that are offensively hilarious to offensively Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithso- bad over the course of his career, but this one seems Up: Truthfully, the only thing you need to know Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: A bachelor—played nian: After the original Night at the Museum proved 16 to be just plain harmless. Which is probably the most about this film is that Pixar is responsible for it, by Matthew McConaughey—attends his younger to be a surprise breakout hit—to the tune of some positive thing anyone’s said about one of his movies which means it will be by turns thoughtful, funny, brother's wedding only to be haunted by his former NJMMJPOJOXPSMEXJEFCPYPGmDFSFWFOVFBTF- for the past decade or so. Imagine that, indeed. ★★ touching—and, of course, absolutely stunning on WORDS girlfriends in spectral form. The question is not quel was all but assured. Look for a film low on plot 1(tISNJO a scale other animated efforts can only dream of. whether this movie is any good, it's more about how and good writing, but high on top-notch CGI effects ★★★★★ 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]]] 1(tISNJO producers were able to convince McConaughey that and sheer star power. Probably worth the ticket price #FMMJT'BJSBN]]]]] 8 he couldn't film the whole thing while shirtless. ★★ Land of the Lost: Growing up, this television se- just to see Hank Azaria in another gleefully over-the- ]]] 1(tISNJO ries, which emerged from the weird and wonderful top supporting role. ★★ 1( 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]] minds of Sid and Marty Kroft, was among my favor- #FMMJT'BJSBN]]]] X-Men Origins: Wolverine: The first in what is ites. With Will Ferrell and Danny McBride on board— said to be a series of X-Men origin stories focuses CURRENTS CURRENTS The Hangover: Sure, Bradley Cooper is the break- Star Trek: Directed by J.J. Abrams and completely not to mention those creepy creepy Sleestaks—the on Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, and tries to do so in out star of this decidedly funny movie—and well recast, this Star Trek installment not only explores big-screen version might not look or sound much such a way that we all forget that X2: X-Men United he should be after laboring in semi-obscurity in a “space, the final frontier," but could also be said to 6 like the TV show of my youth, but it should be funny covered pretty much the exact same territory. ★★★ number of supporting roles on television as well as be "boldly going where no man has gone before." nonetheless. ★★★ 1(tISNJO 1(tISNJO film—but none other than Mike Tyson might be the In case you hadn't already guessed, "These are the 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]] VIEWS VIEWS 4 MAIL MAIL
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In an interview, ART SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A lesbian reader musician Attiss Ngoval told the San Francisco Chronicle who calls herself “Speedy Slow-Hand” wrote to me that he’d want the superpower of X-ray vision “IF and asking for advice. She explained that she keeps getting 19 ONLY IF I could use it to see people naked under their obsessed with the half-feral amazons whom her intense clothes. I don’t want it if all I see is skeletons.” That’s Scorpio self lusts after, and this causes her to miss a good standard for you to keep in mind during the STAGE making contact with the warm, nurturing women her coming weeks, Taurus. I definitely think you’ll have softer side craves. Is it better to have someone to run an ability to see deeper into the multi-layer levels of
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those classic scenes sum up all there is to know about 8 of a famed Japanese anime artist, will invite you to a the mythic meaning of pie fights, as well as the needs sushi feast at a speakeasy club called “Planet Mars” to they address and the techniques involved. I urge you discuss the Theory of Everything. 2) A clownish saint to study up on the Stooges’ teachings concerning these with a tattoo of a cobra swallowing the Earth will get matters—and put them to immediate use. Nothing CURRENTS you high by sniffing the pimple medication Clearasil, could be more effective in dealing with stalled negotia- and then tell you a secret about who you were in one tions, convoluted mind games, superficial exchanges, of your past lives. 3) A familiar stranger will hand 6 excessive gravity, and bureaucratic slowdowns than a you a Cracker Jack toy and whisper, “Are we never righteous pie fight. You can find a Youtube clip of a going to see each other again? Or will we get married Three Stooges pie fight here: tinyurl.com/yvv8hm. VIEWS tomorrow?” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some people use CANCER (June 21-July 22): In honor of the karmic 4 sly intelligence rather than mindless rage to escape clean-up phase of your astrological cycle, I invite you to limitations that have outlived their usefulness. Do do the following exercise: Imagine a pit in the middle MAIL you know any? If so, soak up their influence. You of a desert that holds everything you’ve ever used up,
could use some inspiration and counsel as you make spoiled, and outgrown. Your old furniture is here, along 2 your own break for freedom. The best way to ensure with stuff like once-favorite clothes, CDs, and empty that your liberation will be permanent, not just a boxes of your favorite cereal. But this garbage dump IT DO temporary reprieve, is to go about it with humor and also contains subtler trash, like photos that capture subtlety and humility. cherished dreams you gave up on, mementoes from failed relationships, and symbols of defunct beliefs and AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Writing in Earth- 09 self-images you used to cling to. Everything that is dead watch magazine, Anne Marcotty Morris rhapsodized .10. to you is gathered here. Got that vision in your mind’s about her trek into Brazil’s rain forest. The jungle is 06 eye? Now picture yourself dousing the big heap of stuff a fecund place, she said: “Several barbed seeds that had attached themselves to me on our walk into the with gasoline and setting it on fire. Watch it burn. .04 forest had sprouted by the time we walked out.” These 23
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This would be a good time # fast-growing seeds happen to be an apt metaphor for to activate your sleeping potentials by chanting posi- the state of your psyche, Aquarius. You’re a hotbed of tive declarations about your relationship to what you lush fertility. Given that fact, I advise you to be very need. Instead of typical New Age affirmations, however, discriminating about which influences you give your I think you’ll benefit from something edgier and more attention to. Whether they’re good or bad, empowering poetic. That’s why I’m offering you the statements or corrosive, they will grow fast. below. They were originally written by Andrea Carlisle for use by spiders. Say the following several times a PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There has rarely been a better time than now to blend your fresh sparkly
day: “I am now receiving many fine fat flies in my web. CASCADIA WEEKLY My web is strong and masterful. My web is irresistible innocence and your deep ancient wisdom. The childlike aspects of your intelligence are especially available, to all the attractive creatures I like to nibble on. I am 37 amazingly clever and extremely popular. Even now, and so are the visionary elements. Furthermore, the hundreds of juicy tidbits are headed towards my web.” two have a great potential to complement and enhance each other. You might be amazed at how dramatically VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A talent scout who you could transform long-standing problems by invok- has the power to change your course is drawing closer ing this dynamic tandem of energies.
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32 32 chow EAT Frittata a la Amy RECIPES REVIEWS 10 eggs 1 large onion
CLASSIFIEDS 1 large zucchini 1 bell pepper Goat or gorgonzola cheese
28 28 Parmesan cheese 2 avocados
FILM FILM 2 tomatoes 8 cloves of garlic Salt and pepper to taste 24 Fennel leaves (optional) Soy sauce MUSIC BY AMY KEPFERLE Olive oil 1 jalapeno 22 22 Dice the onion, zucchini and
ART ART bell pepper and saute in olive Sunday Brunch oil, a dash of soy sauce and
19 water, using an oven-safe BOCCE, BOOZE AND BREAKFAST cooking pan. Keep on medium
STAGE STAGE heat. Cook until the onions are translucent. Finely dice garlic and jalapeno, and add. 18 WITH THE SOLSTICE ON THE Whisk eggs, and then add HORIZON, I’M GUESSING to the mix, making sure the
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8 on to broil. When it’s hot, stick the frittata in the oven. Keep an eye on it—don’t let it burn!—and move back and CURRENTS CURRENTS forth from oven to stovetop until it’s done. Serves 8-10. 6
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.10. in size and, conversely, the amount of clothing most humans are wearing in As the sun dappled our exteriors, we cleaned Fill it a fifth of the way full of 06 public has diminished at the same rate. People have been going swimming, our plates. Bees buzzed. Butterflies flapped. ice. Pour in approximately two cups of vodka (can use less for Pete’s sake. Birds chirped. Cups were refilled. Laughter was
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